> My partner is a physician at a hospital in NYC, and something that they are struggling with now is lack of social services for patients to get them out of hospital beds and into homes/rehabs.

The reason for this is opiates. Any time any place in the US sets up free or low cost shelter, the dope addicts move in.

Other industrialized nations don't seem to have as many addicts as the US, or maybe they still have real heroine instead of fentanyl.